An old-fashioned newspaper war inspired by modern politics is raging in Westcliffe and dividing readers

The Colorado Sun: WESTCLIFFE — Main Street of this postcard-pretty town not far from the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains is just six blocks long. 

Yet there are two weekly newspapers — both thriving, both making money, both all in on a newspaper war. 

The Wet Mountain Tribune, its rose-red door in a line of art galleries and coffee shops, has been around for more than 100 years, dating back to the days when the town was bustling with silver miners. The Sangre de Cristo Sentinel is written in what was once a home on the opposite side of Main Street, where a banner proclaims the 10-year-old newspaper offers “a different view from the same mountains” and a “Trump Won” sign is staked in the grass.

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